They may well be a liar, but the alleged arsonist’s pants definitely ended up on fire. Police in the Australia said they went up in flames after he attempted to set fire to a fast-food outlet early Christmas morning in the city of Melbourne. Footage released by Victoria Police on Jan. 9, 2025 shows a […]
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Former Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and former central banker Mark Carney poised to seek party leadership. The party of outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that it will choose a new leader on March 9 ahead of the 2025 general elections. The Liberal Party’s National Board of Directors formally met on Thursday evening to
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The assurances came after Poland’s President Andrzej Duda, from the opposition Law and Justice party, this week asked the government to allow Netanyahu to attend the event. Duda wrote to Tusk’s government requesting Netanyahu not be arrested if he sets foot on Polish soil to attend the commemoration, which will take place on Jan. 27,
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Conflicts rage globally as arms spending hits record levels. Research into global conflict indicates more countries are at war today than at any time since World War II. Incoming US President Donald Trump, NATO and the EU all want to increase military spending – which hit record levels worldwide again last year. What are the
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Children in Gaza live under the constant threat of Israeli bombardment. Soft Skin is a short film that shows the lengths mothers are forced to go to in case the worst should happen … and the psychological impact that has on their children. Soft Skin is part of From Ground Zero, a collection of 22
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, The appointment breaks a deadlock that has left the country without a head of state since October 2022. Lebanon’s army chief Joseph Aoun has been elected as the country’s president after a second round of parliamentary voting, breaking a deadlock that has left the country without a head of state since October
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Dozens of others injured after thousands of devotees queue outside one of the most visited Hindu temples in southern India. At least six people have been crushed to death and dozens injured as a crowd surged at one of the most visited Hindu religious sites at Tirupati town in India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
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Gunshots were heard on Wednesday evening near the presidency in the capital of Chad, N’Djamena. Convoys of military vehicles were seen driving toward the presidency too, the news agency Reuters reported. According to the French AFP news agency, a security source said armed men had attacked the interior of the presidential compound while all roads leading
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Half of Sudan’s population faces acute food shortages. Famine is now present in five areas of Sudan – in what a senior United Nations official says is “a humanitarian crisis of staggering proportions”. Millions are displaced and the United States says genocide is taking place. What’s the world doing for the people of Sudan? Presenter:
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Former Syrian detainee Bassam Ezzedine is on a mission to help prisoners of the fallen regime to find their families. Bassam Ezzedine knows all too well about the cruelty of Syria’s ousted government. After spending time in detention and seeing members of his family disappear, he fled the country as a refugee. But after the
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